Improvement in furniture-tips



G. F. MULLER.

v FURNITURE-TIP. No..17,6, 668. Patented April 25, 1876.

i fil 2 W NPETERS, FHOTO-UTNOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATEN QFFFIGE.

GEORGE F. MULLER, OE SEWIOKLY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT-IN FURNITURE-TIPS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,668, dated-Apri125, 1876; application filed k 1 October 20, 1875. v

To all whom it mag/concern:

. vBe it known that I, GEORGE FREDERICK j Mi'ILLER, of Sewickly, countyof Allegheny,

State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered a new and usefulImprovement in AntiFriction Furniture-Tips; and Idohereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof,reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, making a part of thisspecification, in which like letters indicate like parts.

The nature of my invention relates toa'device for reducingthefrictionexistin g between the bottom of the legs of chairs,'tables,or other articles of furniture, and thefloor or carpetupon which theyare placed and moved and my inventionf consists in the arrange-' inentand combination of parts, as hereafter described and claimed. k v

v To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried itout.

' y In the drawings,Figure 1 represents a tableleg with my improvementattached. Fig.

7.2.represents an elastic washer, and Fig. 3

shows a detached tip ready for being screwed to the leg of the table.

The tip 0 represents a hemisphere, the spher- I ical side of which comesin contact with the floor, while theflat side fits against the lowerpoint of the'leg of thechair or table, without requiring any. fittingthereto. In the center of the flat portion of the tip is secured thescrew E by any of the well-known means.

The elastic packing or washer -F isplaced next to the wooden leg, andthen the tip is screwed in' position. The spherical shape of the tipallows it to slide easily over a floor or carpet without injury toeither. It can be made of metal, wood, glass, or any other 'desirablematerial. 4

I am aware it is not new to fit. sliding tips upon furniture-legs, asthe same is shown in the patent to Ed. Ooogan, patented November 10,1868 but heretofore such tipsrequired mechanical skill to fit them tothe furniture,

which objection it is the design of my invention to avoid. y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- As a new article of manufacture, thesolid antifriction furniture-tip G, hemispherical in form,'and providedwith the screw E, secured to its flat surface, substantially as and forthe purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. 1 7

e. F. MULLER.

1 Witnesses 4 O. S. PARKER, WILLIAM F. RoBB.

